ARK: HUD Inventory And Chat

HUD: INVENTORY AND CHAT

Inventory is a place that can store your collected or crafted items. There are some sections appearing in the inventory that you may need to know!

Preview Inventory and Chat

Inventory Sections

Main Inventory: The items that you gathered or crafted will turn up in this inventory. Make sure you store things in full stacks. The “Inventory tips”, as shown below, will guide you on moving items and keeping inventories tidy.

Hot bar: With this Hot Bar, you can put items here, and you can use them by pressing the corresponding number.

Other inventory: You are visiting the inventory of an item/dino. This contains items that permit crafting, like Mortar and Pestle and Smithy. For crafting items, you need to put them inside and double click the item engram.

Equipped Items: Here are your equipped items. Some items like clothing, glasses or others will be included. The cloth will act as armor and aesthetics.

Character Stats: Check out your stats and levels section. Your current status and maximums will be displayed. When leveling up, you can enhance these and obtain Engram Points which can be utilized to unlock more craftables. Check out “Leveling Up” for further information.

Inventory Tips

Inventory Hot-Keys

HotKey

Function

F

Bring up Others Inventory

Shift-click and drag

Split stacks of materials in half.

Control-click and drag

Transfer one item out of a stack.

Double-click

Equips armor or moves in/out of inventory.

Shift + Double-click

Take 5 units from a material stack.

Control + Double-click

Take 1 unit from a material stack.

Spoiling

Different from berries, meat can give a substitute item when spoiling. For more things, like Narcotics, spoiled meat, they are needed to be gathered. If you want to spoil meat more quickly, you just simply need to unstack them, and they will spoil all simultaneously.